Monday night time’s tv lineup was chock filled with competitions — the Iowa caucuses, the Emmys and an NFL playoff recreation. But when it got here to viewership, there was a transparent winner: Football dominated the night time.
Some 28.6 million viewers tuned in to look at the the Tampa Bay Buccaneers overcome the Philadelphia Eagles 32-9, making Monday’s match ESPN’s second most-watched NFL playoff recreation in historical past. The Buccaneers now advance to the divisional spherical in opposition to the Detroit Lions on Sunday.
Viewership of protection of the Iowa caucuses paled as compared, with a mean of 4.67 million viewers throughout Fox News, MSNBC and CNN, based on Nielsen rankings numbers obtained by Deadline. That complete is round half the viewership the caucuses raked in in the course of the 2020 election season.
That’s in all probability as a result of there wasn’t a lot of a contest to look at in Iowa, the place former President Donald Trump’s victory over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley had lengthy been a foregone conclusion. Trump completed with 51% assist from GOP voters ― about the identical as what polls predicted within the days main as much as the caucuses. Despite being below 4 separate legal indictments, Trump coasted to victory in 98 of Iowa’s 99 counties and triumphed amongst almost each demographic.
That left Haley and DeSantis competing for a distant second place, with the latter eking out the previous by round 2 proportion factors. After a meager displaying Monday night time, Ohio entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out and endorsed Trump.
But the actual loser of the night time was the seventy fifth annual Emmy Awards, which simply 4.3 million folks tuned into. That’s an all-time low for the ceremony, down 27% from the earlier low of 5.92 million for the 2022 ceremony, per evaluation from The Hollywood Reporter.
The awards present’s standout winners had been HBO’s “Succession” and the FX and Hulu collection “The Bear,” which every nabbed six wins, in addition to Netflix’s restricted collection “Beef,” which took dwelling 5.
The night time boasted just a few firsts, too. Quinta Brunson, the creator behind ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” turned the primary Black girl to win greatest actress in a comedy since 1981, and comic Ali Wong turned the first-ever Asian girl to be named excellent lead actress in a restricted collection or film for her starring position in “Beef.”
